Table Of ContentDIALECTIC AFTER PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
Ancient dialectic started as an art of refutation and evolved into a
science akin to logic, grammar and linguistics. Scholars of ancient
philosophy have traditionally focused on Plato’s and Aristotle’s
dialectic without paying much attention to the diverse conceptions
and uses of dialectic presented by philosophers after the Classical
period. To bridge the gap, this volume aims at a comprehensive
understandingofthecompetingHellenisticandImperialdefinitions
of dialectic and their connections with those of the Classical period.
It starts from the Megaric school of the fourth century and the
earlyPeripatetics,viaEpicurus,theStoics,theAcademicscepticsand
Cicero, to Sextus Empiricus and Galen in the second century .
The philosophical foundations and various uses of dialectic are
closely analysed and systematically examined, together with the
numerousobjections thatwere raised against them.
e´¨ı is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the
University of Lille. He has published two books in French on
Stoicism and many papers in French and English on Hellenistic
and Imperial philosophy and on the contemporary reception of
Stoicism. He is currently working on the Academy from Plato to
Cicero.
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at
the University of Athens and at the University of Geneva. She has
published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, espe-
ciallyintheareasofepistemologyandlogic.Sheiscurrentlyworking
on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an
edition, translation and commentary of Theophrastus’ De sensibus
and ofMichael Psellos’paraphrase of Aristotle’s Deinterpretatione.
DIALECTIC AFTER PLATO
AND ARISTOTLE
THOMAS BÉNATOUÏL
UniversitédeLille
KATERINA IERODIAKONOU
UniversitédeGenève
NationalandKapodistrianUniversityofAthens
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Contents
List of Contributors page vii
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction: Dialectics in Dialogue
ThomasBénatouïl
Megara and Dialectic
James Allen
Dialectic in the Early Peripatos
Paolo Crivelli
Epicurus on Dialectic
David Sedley
Dialectic as a Subpart of Stoic Philosophy
Katerina Ierodiakonou
Stoic Dialectic and Its Objects
Jean-BaptisteGourinat
Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy
Luca Castagnoli
Pithana and probabilia
Tobias Reinhardt
Terminology and Practice of Dialectic in Cicero’s Letters
Sophie Aubert-Baillot
The Sceptic’s Modes of Argumentation
Benjamin Morison
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Galen and Middle Platonists on Dialectic and Knowledge
Riccardo Chiaradonna
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Passages
Contributors
, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
-, Associate Professor of Latin, Université
Grenoble Alpes and UMR Litt&Arts – ‘Translatio’
e´¨ı, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Université de
Lille and UMR ‘Savoirs, Textes, Langage’
,AssociateProfessorofAncientGreekPhilosophyand
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Università
Roma Tre
, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Université de Genève
- , Directeur de recherche CNRS, Centre Léon
Robin, Sorbonne Université
, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, National
andKapodistrianUniversityofAthensandAssociateProfessor,Université
de Genève
, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford
, Emeritus Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and
Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge
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Preface
This volume contains the Proceedings of the thirteenth Symposium Helle-
nisticum, which was held in the Abbaye des Prémontrés at Pont-à-
Mousson (Lorraine, France) from to July . Thanks are due to
the Institut Universitaire de France, the Cornelia L. De Vogel Foundation,
theRégionLorraine,theLaboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetdePhilosophie-
Archives Henri Poincaré (UMR , CNRS–Université de Lorraine) and
the UFR Connaissance de l’homme (Université de Lorraine) for their very
generousfinancialsupport;also,toRogerPouivet,GerhardHeinzmanand
Anny Bégard, from the Archives Poincaré, for supporting and helping the
organisers before and during the Symposium in numerous ways; finally, to
Anna Ntinti for her help in transforming the various papers into a
homogeneous text and for producing the indices.
All the chapters of this book were presented as papers and discussed
during the Symposium, except Paolo Crivelli’s Chapter , which was
commissioned afterwards by the organising committee. The participants
intheSymposiumwere:JamesAllen,KeimpeAlgra,SophieAubert-Baillot,
Thomas Bénatouïl, Gábor Betegh, Richard Bett, Mauro Bonazzi, Tad
Brennan, Charles Brittain,Luca Castagnoli,Riccardo Chiaradonna,Paolo
Crivelli, Dorothea Frede, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Katerina Ierodiakonou,
Brad Inwood,AnthonyLong,StephenMenn,BenjaminMorison,Tobias
Reinhardt,MalcolmSchofield,DavidSedley,GiselaStriker,TeunTieleman,
Christelle Veillard and James Warren.
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